It’s the 14th! Valentine’s day! … no, wait, it’s the 14th podcast. Sorry about that. Take a survey, win a pro account for Flickr. Show Notes: A Basement of Broken Dreams – An album by John Holowach, hosted on archive.org. I used his song called My Piano Sings (Part 3). If you don’t push the students you’ll always have good results, but if you push the students then they will LEARN. When sending email about the art schedule, some messages aren’t finding their way to…Continue Reading “14th Podcast: Risks and Email”
Lucky 13! Take a survey, win a pro account for Flickr. Show Notes: A Basement of Broken Dreams – An album by John Holowach, hosted on archive.org. I used his song called My Piano Sings (Part 3). Egad! How the heck did I make 10th place in Podcast Alley’s education section? I mean, I appreciate it and all, but how did that happen? To those of you who are listening / reading this, some comments on why you keep coming back would be greatly appreciated….Continue Reading “13th Podcast: Ratings and Performance”
I’m thinking of opening I’ve opened up a CafePress account and started putting some Blog / Podcast / Geek / Teacher / Artist / etc. designs up there. Everything’s being sold “at cost,” so CafePress makes a profit but I don’t. Why? because I’m not that interested in making money here. I just want to get these designs out. In any case, I’m trying to think of some good slogans. So far, I have: Blogs in Education: Share the Kool-Aid. Podcasts in Education: Share the…Continue Reading “T-shirts, etc. (UPDATE)”
12th podcast, now there’s one for every month! (But if you only listen to one podcast a month you’re not truly taking full advantage of the media, are you?) Take a survey, win a pro account for Flickr. Show Notes: A Basement of Broken Dreams – An album by John Holowach, hosted on archive.org. I used his song called My Piano Sings (Part 3). BlogMeister – a blogging engine for teachers and students created by David Warlick. I highly recommend that you also check out…Continue Reading “12th Podcast: Blog Safety and T-Shirts”
Those of us who listen to podcasts already know how to get them, listen to them, and in most cases record them. Something I’ve noticed when looking around is that there’s very little documentation on podcasting that will make sense to people who go into it knowing absolutely nothing about it. What we need if we truly want to podvangelize is something like “Podcasting for Dummies” that will explain the basics without going over the heads of the more technologically impaired educators.Now I know many…Continue Reading “Podcasting 101 Challenge”
The following article is for the benefit of people who’ve yet to get their feet wet in the wonderful world of podcasts. If you’re already very familiar with the subject, then it is my recommendation that you share this article or one like it with someone who you think would like listening to podcasts – if only they knew what they were. I’m not going into great depth here, but that should keep people’s eyes from glazing over. I’ve written this out to be printer…Continue Reading “Missing the conference? Not a problem!”
Top ten! (If you only count my podcasts…) Show Notes: A Basement of Broken Dreams – An album by John Holowach, hosted on archive.org. I used his song called My Piano Sings (Part 3). Using email to achieve a paperless system only works if your emails aren’t blocked by another teacher’s spam filter. When podvangelizing, it’s best to break it down and keep it simple. (Does that mean you share Kool-Aid that’s been watered down?) Also, you can leave printouts from various podvangelizing websites in…Continue Reading “10th Podcast: Spam and Kool-Aid”
Ok, I’ve been looking at various blog engines I can use with my Art Club next year and so far I’m not happy with any of them. You see I want to have students from grades 3 thru 6 blogging about the artworks they’re working on, but since they’re so young I want to have some administrative control over what the students put on their accounts. I’ve had a few people suggest software solutions, but I’m looking for an existing blog service. David Warlick’s got…Continue Reading “(No longer) In search of a blog”
Here we are on cloud nine, even if it does get a little staticy at the end. Shownote Links: A Basement of Broken Dreams – An album by John Holowach, hosted on archive.org. I used his song called My Piano Sings (Part 3). Having teachers email me their paperwork works nicer than having them hand me paper, and I get the same participation rate. When installing RAM, make sure you do it right the first time. Also, when you don’t have a deadline and a…Continue Reading “9th Podcast: Paperless, RAM, and a Printmaker”
Heads up, seven up!This episode, expect to hear… Shownote Links: [EDIT: Changed Teach42‘s link so it actually works this time. Sorry about that.] Fragile – Instrumental 12 – A song by Cry for Life, hosted on archive.org teach42 – the official education site of Steve Dembo. Podcast Alley: Education Podcasts – C’mon, you know you want to vote for me … right?